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by relix 6y ago
I'm glad you agree that it is indeed considered a best practice to automatically unsubscribe someone who legitimately subscribed, when they don't read your emails.
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by relix 6y ago
The problem is that doesn't stay contained for those few users. If a certain number of users mark your confirmation email as spam, your reputation suffers and there's a higher likelihood that suddenly your emails get sent to spam
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by relix 6y ago
I did indeed mean weary.
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by relix 6y ago
What I described is literally listed under "best practices for bulk senders" by Gmail. These are hoops I'm not fond of jumping through either, obviously, but if Gmail marks all my email as spam I lose 4000 subscribers overnig
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by relix 6y ago
For subscribing, you just described double opt-in and that already happens. When unsubscribing, users are very sensitive to any subsequent emails (just read the other comments in this thread). Sending an email to confirm their unsubscriptio
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by relix 6y ago
Here for example is Gmail's explanation: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/81126?hl=en CTRL-F "Send email to engaged users" Some choice quotes: - "Consider unsubscribing users who don’t re
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by relix 6y ago
People hate that as well, as can be clearly seen in the comments on this story. It's basically impossible to do right for everyone.
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by relix 6y ago
I totally agree! I completely understand why one would start pressing spam instead of unsubscribe, for this reason.
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by relix 6y ago
I don't think anyone should be scared of pressing the unsubscribe button in 2021. This was a common belief back in 1999, but I don't believe that should be anymore: spammers (legit spammers) don't care that there's an ac
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by relix 6y ago
I believe it's because even though most newsletters are acting 100% legit (it would be pretty hard to keep going if not), there's always a few that would act like jerks and not actually unsubscribe you, or make you jump through ex
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by relix 6y ago
Yes, if that newsletter is using best practices. The recommended period is 90 days I believe, but you can get send an email asking if you're still interested (and in that email, there will be a link you should click if you want to stay
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by relix 6y ago
If you're running a mail newsletter, this tracking is pretty important. You're supposed to stop sending emails to someone who's not interacting with them, or you get an extra point towards being flagged as spam. Since people
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by relix 6y ago
Unrelated meta-question: In the screenshots in the article posted by bmiller2 https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/15/22232766/github-employees... You can see something I honestly dislike very much in discuss
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by relix 6y ago
This reminds me of another impressive shot with a steadicam on a segway: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3TBvJUtuHs Halfway through the video you can see how it was done. Notice the "focus puller" running next to
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by relix 6y ago
I may be misremembering, but from how I understood container shipping works, that is always the case with lost / damaged containers, no matter the size of the event. If only one container falls off the boat, all entities who were shipp
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by relix 6y ago
One of the first paragraphs of the article: at the time it was considered dumping the barrels in the deep ocean was sufficient because the vast amount of water would dilute the chemical. The shortcut they took was that they did not go that
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by relix 6y ago
I remember a blog post on HN a while back that discussed music notation and explained how music sheet setting is less deterministic than one might think, and how there is a big difference between good and bad setting, even if the content (t
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by relix 7y ago
You can customise it to a larger degree than you realise, with tools such as BetterTouchTool. You can script it. It takes some work to setup but it allows for extremely cool things to happen. This should be right up every hacker's alle
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by relix 7y ago
Maybe people just disagree that it's an obvious downgrade? There are benefits to the touchbar, and yes people who prefer the touchbar over the function keys do exist - I'm one of them. Have you tried really using it, or did you wr
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by relix 7y ago
The latter part of your first paragraph is the answer to the first part.
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by relix 8y ago
> Aardman have a look to their work that people know and love. Which is either easily reproducible (my point A) or not (my point B). But the style of their movies is most likely not a protectable IP.
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by relix 8y ago
If it looked exactly the same, but was not made by Aardman, would you not have gone seen it? How much is that marginal extra chance worth, ceteris paribus, that you would go see it because you recognize the name, exactly? Now multiply that
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by relix 8y ago
Either it's hard to create the content, or it is not. If it's not hard, the studios don't need to buy Aardman. The IP they have is negligible, and no one watches a movie because it's made by Aardman (99% of the people wo
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by relix 8y ago
As far as I know, the only way to avoid creating a tax nexus in each country where you have "employees" (or contractors) is to make sure the contractors invoice you. The way this usually works is indeed the contractors have a sole
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by relix 8y ago
I was talking about Estonian companies, they don't have corporate taxes.
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by relix 8y ago
Hardly. JCP's book value is actually positive and double the share price, versus SHLD's $-40 per share of $0,40; and JCP has no major debt due until 2022.
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by relix 8y ago
Check out https://www.leapin.eu/ for an easy way to set up an Estonian company and manage the accountancy around it. You can probably also contact them how it works with their German customers, and what your obligations and
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by relix 8y ago
You know what they say, planes stay in the air through lift generated by physics; helicopters stay in the air because they're so ugly the earth repels them. I'm OK with flying in fixed-wing craft, but you wouldn't be able to
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by relix 8y ago
I had a fear of flying, which I overcame completely by accident: I started playing a realistic flight sim for a while. Because it was realistic, I had to learn the basics of how to actually fly a plane. It taught me two things: what some of
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by relix 9y ago
You're already coercing people into voting your way. It'll be peanuts to coerce a person who works in the polling areas to jot down who came to ask for a ballot twice. I also don't appreciate your arrogance in trying to shut

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